leVirve/NTHU_Course

NTHU Course

A system that fetch the course data and provide service that is insinctive, easy to use.

Typing the commands below may help you build this system.

pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py crawl_course
python manage.py update_index

To clear all contents in db, use python manage.py crawl_course clear

To update all syllabus, use python manage.py update_syllabus

For auto decaptcha feature, it requires tesseract 3.03

Install dependency

• tesseract
  • mac: brew install tesseract --devel # Without --devel, it will install tesseract 3.02
  • ubuntu: sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Setting

We use mysql as database. The default setting will find a config file in 'NTHU_Course/mysql.ini'. The following is a sample config file:

[client]
database = <database name>
user = <mysql username>
password = <mysql password>
host = <mysql server ip>
port = <mysql server port>
default-character-set = utf8

Heroku settings

To use it in heroku, you have to set the following environment variables

TESSDATA_PREFIX=/app/.apt/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata
BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=NTHU_Course.settings.heroku
SECRET_KEY=hard-to-guess-string

this can be achieved by heroku config:set or the web panel